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\n\t\tThe fellows of our first research sprint introduce themselves\n\t<\/h2>\n\t

There is an increasing public pressure on platform companies to more soundly police the content on their sites. To address this, platforms are turning to algorithmic content moderation systems. These systems prioritize content that promises to increase engagement and block content that is deemed illegal or is infringing the platforms own policies and guidelines. But content moderation is a ‘wicked problem’ that raises many questions all of which eschew simple answers. Where is the line between hate speech and freedom expression – and how to automate and deploy this on a global scale? Are platforms overblocking legitimate content, or are they rather failing to limit illegal speech on their sites?<\/p>\n

This is just one of the many pressing issues related to platform governance – a number of which we would like to address together with our fellows in an interdisciplinary research sprint with exciting structures for policy impact (public and private).<\/p>\n\t

HIIG Research Sprint | FELLOW<\/strong>S<\/h3>\n&nbsp\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n
<\/td>\n      <\/td>\n Hannah Bloch-Wehba<\/b>
\nAffiliation: Law professor at Texas A&M University
\nArea of Research: Law and technology \n<\/td>\n <\/tr> \n
<\/td>\n      <\/td>\n Josh Cowls<\/b>
\nAffiliation: PhD candidate at the University of Oxford’s Internet Institute
\nArea of Research: Demystifying and demythologising new technology like AI\n<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n      <\/td>\n Philipp Darius<\/b>
\nAffiliation: PhD candidate at Hertie School
\nArea of Research:Innterdisciplinary fields of computational social science and social data science\n<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n      <\/td>\n Angelica Fernandez<\/b>
\nAffiliation: PhD candidate at the University of Luxembourg
\nArea of Research: AI and the enforcement of norms on online platforms\n<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n      <\/td>\n Valentina Golunova<\/b>
\nAffiliation: PhD candidate at The University of Maastricht
\nArea of Research: Digital civil rights\n<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n      <\/td>\n Aline Iramina<\/b>
\nAffiliation: Ph.D. candidate in Law at the University of Brasilia (Brazil) and Ph.D. candidate in Law and researcher at the University of Glasgow (UK)
\nArea of Research: AI & Law\n<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n      <\/td>\n Sunimal Mendis<\/b>
\nAffiliation: Assistant Professor at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) of Tilburg University
\nArea of Research: Intellectual Property Law\n<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n      <\/td>\n David Morar<\/b>
\nAffiliation: Visiting scholar at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Sweden
\nArea of Research: \n<\/td>\n <\/tr> \n
<\/td>\n      <\/td>\n Dominiquo Santistevan<\/b>
\nAffiliation: PhD student at the University of Chicago
\nArea of Research: AI for social good\n<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n      <\/td>\n Charlotte Spencer-Smith<\/b>
\nAffiliation: PhD candidate at the Center for Information and Communication Technologies & Society (ICT&S) at the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Salzburg, Austria
\nArea of Research: Architecture, algorithms and affordances of online platforms\n<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n      <\/td>\n Wayne Wei Wang<\/b>
\nAffiliation: PhD Candidate at the University of Hong Kong
\nArea of Research: IP, IT Law & Innovation Policy\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n      <\/td>\n Wai Yan<\/b>
\nAffiliation: AI engineer at Koe Koe Tech
\nArea of Research: Guidance of online social interactions by algorithms\n<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\t

About the project<\/h3>\n

The virtual clinic is part of the\u00a0NoC<\/a>\u00a0research project\u00a0“The Ethics of Digitalisation – From Principles to Practices”<\/a>, which aims to develop viable answers to challenges at the intersection of ethics and digitalisation. Innovative formats facilitate interdisciplinary scientific work on application-, and practice-oriented questions and achieve outputs of high social relevance and impact. Our first research sprint on\u00a0algorithmic tools for content moderation<\/a>\u00a0has just successfully concluded. The project promotes an active exchange between science, politics and society and thus contributes to a global dialogue on the ethics of digitalisation.<\/p>\n

Besides the HIIG, the main project partners are the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University, the Digital Asia Hub, and the Leibniz Institute\u00a0for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut.<\/p>\n

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The project stands under the patronage of the Federal President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier and is funded by the Mercator Foundation.<\/p>\n

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Project team<\/h3>\n

Nadine Birner<\/a>, HIIG<\/p>\n

Shlomi Hod<\/a>, HIIG<\/p>\n

Matthias C. Kettemann<\/a>, HBI\/HIIG<\/p>\n

Alexander Pirang<\/a>, HIIG<\/p>\n

Friederike Stock<\/a>, HIIG<\/p>\n\n\t

About HIIG<\/h3>\n

The HIIG<\/a> researches the development of the internet from a societal perspective with the aim to better understand the digitalisation of all spheres of life.<\/p>\n\t

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